1 CREATE

Use CREATE to create a command procedure that contains all  PATCH
commands successfully executed after the CREATE command.

When  you  use  CREATE  to  create  a  command  procedure,  PATCH
automatically   inserts,  as  the  first  entry  in  the  command
procedure, the name of the image file that will  incorporate  the
patches.   All  symbolic  names are converted to absolute values,
and all command names  and  qualifiers  are  truncated  to  their
shorthand notation.

You can issue only one CREATE  command  per  PATCH  session.   To
create  another command procedure, close the input image file and
then reopen it.

To process the patches contained in the command procedure,  issue
the following DCL command:

	$ PATCH @file-spec

In  the  above  command  line,  the  file-spec   represents   the
specification of the command procedure containing the patches.

Format:

     CREATE   [file-spec]

2 Parameters

file-spec
     Represents the file specification of the command procedure.   The
     syntax is as follows:

          device:[directory]filename.filetype;version

     You can omit all or some of the fields in the  command  procedure
     file  specification.   PATCH uses the default values listed below
     for omitted fields.

         Field                             Default Value


     device:[directory]    The process's current default device and
                           directory
     filename              The name of input image file
     filetype              .COM
     version               V04-000 greater than the highest
                           command procedure of the same name